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Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties : European versus American cities
Picard, Pierre M.; Zenou, Yves - 2015
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some individuals reside close to the job center while others live far away from it. Even though the two...
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Is there a diminishing value of urban amenities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Vuuren, Aico van - 2022
We investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic decreased the willingness to pay for urban amenities such as restaurants … detailed and flexible definition of density of urban amenities based on the exact location of these amenities and the walking … distance from the apartments to these amenities. We find a decrease of 1.9 percent of apartments that we label as amenity rich. …
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Pricing neighborhoods
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Razavi, Goya - 2023
Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores. We argue that this is due to sorting of teachers...
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Social networks and interactions in cities
Helsley, Robert W.; Zenou, Yves - 2011
We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher levels of interactions in equilibrium. As a result, the level...
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Tipping and residential segregation : a unified schelling model
Zhang, Junfu - 2009
This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, complete segregation is observed almost all of the time. A concept of tipping is rigorously defined,...
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A simple theory of industry location and residence choice
Borck, Rainald (contributor); Pflüger, Michael (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of … of production which seeks to obtain the highest possible economic return. Our theory comprehends applications to …
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Location-specific human capital, location choice and amenity demand
Krupka, Douglas D. (contributor) - 2007
The role of amenities in the flow of migrants has been debated for some years. This paper advances an original model of … amenities that work through household production instead of directly through the utility function. Area characteristics … (amenities) affect household production, causing certain kinds of human capital investments to be rewarded more than others. Area …
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Job insecurity and youth emancipation : a theoretical approach
Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana; … - 2005
In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their children and will provide financial help to an independent child when her income is low relative to the...
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Bobos in paradise : urban politics and the new economy
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2015
investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport, with adverse effects on commuting time. The model allows us to … and have been replaced by service workers is studied. In such an equilibrium urban amenities are at their maximum and …
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Welfare benefits of agglomeration and worker heterogeneity
Teulings, Coen N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L. … - 2014
The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...
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